In this class, I discuss my visit to the WeChat Open Class in Guangzhou. And why Allen Zhang and the WeChat team are doing so much better than Facebook and Apple.
You can listen here or at iTunes, Google Podcasts and Himalaya.
Allen Zhang’s video from the event is here.
Concepts for this class:
- Pipelines vs. Platforms
- Platform Types: Payment
- Platform Types: Transactions and Social
Companies for this class:
- Tencent
- Apple
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Frank Huang
January 25, 2020 at 11:32amAllen in his video speech gives out his thoughts on how people’s life is shaped by information and the latest developments on wechat. Jeff gave comparisons between wechat and facebook. He has better opinions of wechat. However, I have to say as a social network platform, there is no big difference between wechat and facebook in terms of addictiveness, intrusion of privacy,bragging and showoff. Maybe Allen invented the wechat for people to get conneted and communicate, but his boss Tony Ma has different idea.